Chapter 1: The Key to Mastering Decisions

Key Points:
The key to reaching mastery in decision-making is the ability to focus your physical, mental, and emotional resources on an issue like a laser beam. Such focus enables you to reach decision clarity faster and easier.
The key to mastering decisions is the ability to focus your mind effectively and the process you use to reach clarity.
You cannot lead without reaching clarity first!
Clarity State is intended to replicate a state of being in the clarity moment. This state is instrumental to making tough choices faster, more easily, and with better internal alignment.

Definitions:
Clarity is a feeling of certainty and of internal alignment with the solution.
The objective of a decision-making process is to reach clarity.
A right decision is one when the decision maker is emotionally and mentally congruent with it.

Quotes:
The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one’s self.
Friedrich Nietzsche
When you know it’s right, you’ll make it right.
Keith Collins, CEO of PhyTrust, Inc
Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad.
Goeth
Clearness is the ornament of profound thought.
Marquis de Vauvenargues
After discussion, my immediate reports always knew whether or not I made the decision. And usually, when I did, they lined up and focused on execution.
Larry Bossidy, Retired Chairman of Honeywell International and